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How do I resolve XFCE's buggy volume plugins? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The instance of XFCE that I am using seems to be really buggy. I am forced to use both xfce-volumed-pulse and xfce-pulseaudio-plugin side by side, and the issue that arises from this is that now there are two notification indicators for the present volume.

When I remove xfce-volumed-pulse (this plugin is no longer shown on the official documentation), the multimedia key stops working, so there's no notification indicator.

But when I remove xfce-pulseaudio-plugin, I am no longer able to access the slider widget in the control panel, that allows me to tap into pavucontrol.

What is happening here?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm using Xfce, and the program to control volume is "pavucontrol", no problem with it...

Plugin in my panel seems to be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Plugin in my panel seems to be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so

Another name for this is the xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, so that is right, actually - it is the same plugin I've mentioned. It prompts the option to use pavucontrol as the mixer.

If you check the General Tab in Properties, you can see the first option in Behaviour - "Enable keyboard shortcuts for volume control". This isn't working for me.

I wanted to log XFCE plugins, but I'm not really sure on how it should be done.

Btw, does media button, like pause-play, previous and next work with this plugin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't know what program really is catching the keys, but from my keyboard, the vol+/- mute speaker and mute mic are working, my behavior enable keyboard shortcut checkbox is rightly checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For logging, PANEL_DEBUG=all (source) seems to work. Anyway, did you reboot the system after removing xfce-volumed-pulse (so only xvce-pulseaudio-plugin should be enabled) ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yes, I did. Since I reconfigure the Guix configuration, I also follow up with a reboot.